Bridget has explored the tension between labour market flexibilities and citizenship rights, and pioneered an understanding of the functions of immigration in key labour market sectors. Her interest in labour demand has meant an engagement with debates about trafficking and modern day slavery, which in turn led to an interest in state enforcement and deportation, and in the ways immigration controls increasingly impact on citizens as well as on migrants. Bridget has worked closely with migrants’ organisations, trades unions and legal practitioners at local, national and international level.

Us and Them? Bridget Anderson Interview on Migrants and Nation-States

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (follow link to listen, download or read the transcript) recorded an interview with Bridget on migrants and nation states. She argues that underlying people’s economic fears about migrants taking their jobs are much deeper anxieties about nationality, culture, and race. The nation-state is simply not working for a lot of humanity, and we need to come up with new ways of thinking about political communities.